Jumping

Jumping

When you're not hacking apart droids, jacking them or solving puzzles, you'll spend much of the remainder of your time leaping along precarious ledges. At first, this can prove a daunting task. You'll likely try to make many dangerous leaps and find yourself repeatedly plummeting to your doom. However, there's an art to the hop and when you learn that art you'll find that the game has suddenly become much less intimidating.

When you make a standard jump, you'll sometimes find yourself floating over an abyss or attempting to land on a ledge that's extremely narrow. You can try aiming precisely for each ledge, pipe or metal structure. Sometimes you'll succeed and sometimes you won't. If you double jump, though, your success rate soars into the stratosphere. Even when it seems like you shouldn't have to double jump to reach a nearby ledge, it often works in your favor if you make the double jump. A double jump doesn't really make you leap further, but for some reason it pulls your airborne form toward ledges that otherwise you would have missed.

Of course, not every jump is a test of the distance you can leap. Sometimes, you'll need to wall jump your way to the top of vertical shafts located throughout the four planets. In these situations, you can leap against one wall, then quickly bounce from there to another wall on the opposite side of the shaft. Then you just keep the leaps coming until you reach solid ground at the top of the shaft. There are opportunities to practice this early in the game, so make sure that you do; later challenges will make things more difficult and may even ask you to attempt ridiculous acrobatics while hovering over a bottomless pit. If you start practicing now, you won't have trouble later.

Master the above techniques and you'll easily blaze through the whole game without needing any further assistance from us. If you do need more help, though, consult our walkthrough for a blow-by-blow guide to every twist and turn. You can do this!